September 13 2005 20:0' Seeking a site where they could escape murderous persecution and build their Utopian Zion, a battered, depleted company of self–declared "saints" of Mormon came stumbling into Salt Lake Valley 158 years ago.

September 14 2005 17:24 New York hotels are booked to capacity as world and business leaders, dignitaries and fashionistas converge in the city this week, highlighting shrinking supply and higher rates after the conversion of several Manhattan hotels to condominiums.

September 13 2005 20:4' Judge John Roberts, nominee to be US chief justice, on Tuesday expressed strong support for the past rulings of the US Supreme Court, including the landmark 1'73 Roe v Wade, which legalised abortion in America.

Mr Roberts remained calm and composed during his first day of quest >>>

September 14 2005 17:54 Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary General, on Wednesday berated world leaders in New York for failing to agree new measures against nuclear proliferation, telling them they must stop posturing and start negotiations to deal with the mounting threat of catastrophe.

September 13 2005 22:08 Tony Blair on Tuesday warned trade union leaders to modernise the labour movement or face terminal decline, as he rejected a shopping list of demands on pensions and workers‘ rights.

The prime minister, who met union general secretaries at a private dinner in Brighton at the Trad >>>

0':27 BAGHDAD, Sept 14 (Reuters) – A suicide bomber lured a crowd of Shi‘ite day labourers to his minivan before blowing it up, killing 114 and wounding more than 156 in Baghdad‘s old town on Wednesday, in one of Iraq‘s deadliest single bomb attacks.

September 13 2005 1':16 Cemex, the Mexican cement company that has already significantly increased the efficiency of the UK‘s RMC after buying it last year, is offering 31m shares after its stock price rose by two–thirds since the acquisition was announced.

September 14 2005 14:41 China‘s piracy problems remain both severe and widespread because the country has been unable to produce tangible law enforcement results at the local level, according to a senior US commerce official.

Chris Israel, appointed by US President George W. Bush this summer to coordina >>>

August 25 2005 20:03 Kofi Annan, secretary–general, had hoped the summit – billed as the biggest gathering of leaders in history – would inject new life into the international system following the invasion of Iraq, new security threats, and warnings that poverty–reduction goals will not be achi >>>

September 14 2005 18:17 Jean–Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made clear on Wednesday he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio, the Bank of Italy governor engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.

September 14 2005 1':08 Chancellor Gerhard SchrĂ¶der told German voters on Wednesday that the opposition Christian Democrats could not be trusted on tax because of "chaos" in their shadow cabinet on finance policy.

Speaking to 12,000 supporters in Bremen, northern Germany, he said it would >>>

September 13 2005 1':07 Dominique de Villepin, French prime minister, on Tuesday moved to head off threatened protests by announcing rebates on fuel taxes for farmers and fiscal incentives for the production of environmentally friendly bio–fuels.

September 13 2005 1':07 Dominique de Villepin, French prime minister, on Tuesday moved to head off threatened protests by announcing rebates on fuel taxes for farmers and fiscal incentives for the production of environmentally friendly bio–fuels.

September 14 2005 17:55 Italy‘s centre–left opposition on Wednesday boycotted parliament in protest at a government proposal to overhaul the voting system just months before next year‘s national election.

Opposition leaders fear the changes are designed to overcome their lead in opinion poll >>>

September 13 2005 1':26 Japan‘s Asian neighbours have greeted this week‘s landslide election win by Junichiro Koizumi, the country‘s Liberal Democratic party prime minister, with a response fitting to a nation that is both the region‘s economic superpower and a historical aggressor.

September 14 2005 18:46 For more than a week , Indonesian officials have been telling visiting dignitaries behind closed doors that they will move early next month to increase politically sensitive fuel prices and slash a bloated subsidies bill.

September 13 2005 21:45 Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine‘s president who last week sacked his government including Yulia Tymoshenko, his glamorous prime minister, has given himself a new chance to end his country‘s political turmoil.

It could be his last opportunity to deal with the uncertainty which ha >>>

September 13 2005 21:45 Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine‘s president who last week sacked his government including Yulia Tymoshenko, his glamorous prime minister, has given himself a new chance to end his country‘s political turmoil.

It could be his last opportunity to deal with the uncertainty which ha >>>

July 14 2005 20:4' It is all too much. Look around at the poverty, the tyrannies, the broken states, the ethnic conflicts, the global marketplace in weapons of mass destruction. Reflect on the wickedness of those whose corruption of Islam brings death and mayhem to our cities. We cannot fix everything. Better to m >>>

September 14 2005 18:17 From the jetty at San Juan de las Galdonas, a fishing village on the eastern coast of Venezuela, Pedro Salcedo casts his eye across the Caribbean. The sea is calm. A fine day for sailing.

Fishing, however, is just an occasional pastime for Mr Salcedo. He makes better money transporting >>>

September 14 2005 14:23 Taiwan and South Korea cannot expect to be upgraded to developed market status by FTSE until early 2007 at the earliest, after the global index provider said Wednesday the two countries needed to make further efforts to liberalise their foreign exchange markets and trading regulations for forei >>>

September 14 2005 11:30 Britain faces a growing challenge from the impact of increased life expectancy on pensions, but introducing compulsory pensions is not the answer, Adair Turner, chairman of the Pensions Commission said on Wednesday.

Mr Turner told the Trades Union Congress that it had been the overt ai >>>

September 14 2005 12:41 The labour market continued to tread water over the summer with another small rise in unemployment, a modest rise in the size of the workforce and bonuses pushing up average earnings, official figures showed on Wednesday.

September 14 2005 08:4' The commission, which is investigating the Â£4.3bn market, said again that it feared that retailers and banks could be profiting from the level of interest rates charged on store cards.

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September 13 2005 1':06 As Congress pushes through a series of short–term relief measures for victims of Hurricane Katrina, there is growing evidence that the storm is having a longer term impact on political priorities.

The demands of the crisis have already delayed the extension of popular tax cut >>>

September 14 2005 15:04 Hurricane Katrina "severely curtailed" US industry last month, according to a Federal Reserve report on US production, but a separate report showing robust retail sales lifted confidence in the consumer‘s ability to withstand the drag of rising energy costs.

September 13 2005 20:55 The Bush administration on Tuesday stepped up its rhetoric against Syria, accusing Damascus of aiding terrorist attacks in Iraq and warning that it faced the dangers of becoming "more isolated" if it was not more transparent about its actions in Lebanon.